Love to climb the ladder

- LOVE OASIS can successfully take a big step up the class ladder at Pontefract today.

In a race dominated by threeyear-olds taking on older horses high up in the weights, the improving selection gets weight from all seven of her rivals in the ebfstallions.com Fillies’ Handicap.

She has shown an admirable consistency through the season to win twice and place in all but one of her five outings, and was especially impressive when coming home unchallenged at Leicester last time.

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into a Class 3 from a Class 5 under a penalty I think Mark Johnston’s charge can go in again.

EXCLUSIVE WATERS was a wide margin scorer when last seen in February but after a 146day absence needs to prove its fitness in the JP Memorial Ladies’ Handicap.

The seven-year-old annihilated the opposition on the Tapeta surface and switches to grass, but having shown a tendency to run well after a break in the past, another big run can be expected.

At Wolverhampton there is plenty of value about WHITELEY in the FCL Global Forwarding - Making Logistics Personal Handicap.

Mick Channon’s filly has twice run out of gas up the final hill at Brighton but the cut back to 1200m on a move to an allweather surface can do the trick for John Egan’s mount.